understanding grief

the science of grief.

what research tells us about grief: what it does to the brain and body, why it comes in waves, and how people live with it.

thinking and memory

what grief does to the brain

why your mind keeps expecting them to walk through the door, and what neuroscience says about yearning.

5 min read

thinking and memory

why you can't concentrate right now

the forgetting, the fog, the rereading the same line. 'grief brain' is real, and it eases.

5 min read

stress and sleep

grief lives in the body too

sleep, appetite, tiredness, a heavy chest. how loss shows up physically, and small ways to steady it.

5 min read

attachment and loss

staying connected to someone who has died

continuing bonds: why talking to them, writing to them and keeping their things isn't 'not letting go'.

5 min read

adjusting over time

there's no timeline for this

where the 'five stages' came from, what it got wrong, and what researchers think instead.

5 min read

grief cycles

why ordinary days can hit the hardest

anniversaries, birthdays, a song in a shop. why some days arrive heavier than others.

5 min read

attachment and loss

why we give flowers

a small history of the oldest way we have of saying: i know, and i'm here.

4 min read